Materials coming to Houdini with the wrong settings
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David Johnson
I have been trying out Cargo with Houdini 19 (and 20) and it seems that the Materials are coming in with the wrong settings. When compared with the download kits, I have found that the following is causing display problems. The transparency channel (when needed) is not set to 1 but left at zero. The base colour is almost black and going by the download kits it should be closer to white. Currently this means that I have to change all the material settings in order to get the image to render like the views in the Cargo Application
Daniel Das Neves
Can someone take a look as to why the geometry and textures don't work correctly when importing into Houdini 2.0 with Vray6.0?
I've been wainting for a reply on this for a while. The texture links are correct and the attribute to the material path is also correct but the textures don't render correctly.
Image: Left is just a quick test importing the geometry manually into a new geometry node and assigning the shaders myself.
Right is how it comes out of Cargo.
David Johnson
I have some additional feedback as I have been trying put the Solaris with the Karma shader with the MaterialX materials. These work much better and appear to have the base colour set correctly, however the glass materials are coming through wrong. At a basic level the reflection image needs to be inverted and sent to the opacity and the reflection value remains at 1.5, however the output will also depend on what the user is after and which render engine you want (Although I am no expert so I might be making a mistake on the settings, But with the default cargo settings for the Karma render plugin, transparent objects are not transparent
Steven Chen
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Thanks David! We'll get this sorted.